The Tally Room

The latest Newspoll has reversed the small gains made by Nathan Rees in the previous Newspoll, with the Coalition polling 41%, the ALP 31% and the Greens 14%. The two-party-preferred figure put the Coalition on 55%, however, as many have pointed out, two-party-preferred figures...

In breaking news, the NSW Greens conducted their preselection ballot count yesterday, with Lee Rhiannon winning comfortably to be chosen for the first position on the ticket. The second position went to Executive Director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Cate Faehrmann, with...

5. Rig an election where 80% of people turned out to vote The turn out at the recent election in Iran was the largest in the country’s history. This shows that the people were very committed to this particular election – and since the...

The overall results for the European Parliament were: EPP-ED - 264 PES - 161 ALDE - 83 G/EFA - 53 EUL-NGL - 33 I/D - 18 UEN - 14 Other - 110 While all of the groups except the Greens lost seats, due to the reduction in size of the Parliament, these were...

I've been taking a break post-EU but will be back to usual transmissions soon, with a final concluding post on the EU and a couple of other posts. However, you may satisfy yourself in the meantime by reading a guest post I wrote for...

Since I focused all my attention on the European Parliament election, I've missed a few other elections. I thought it would be good to mention a few interesting elections that are taking place today: Iran's voters are almost finished going to the polls to elect...

Here we go with the final instalment, covering Greece and the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Bulgaria - The result was largely status quo. The six parties contesting the election ended up being ranked in the same order. The...

I'm still working on my map of UK House of  Commons constituencies for the next general election. I recently finished the East of England, for a total of 270 constituencies out of 650. As you can see below, this map now covers the southern...

Here we go again: Austria - It was a bad result for both parties in the governing grand coalition, with the centre-right People's Party suffering a 2.7% swing, and the Social Democratic Party suffering a 9.5% swing. The SPO lost 3 of their 7 MEPs...

Here is a brief summary of how the EU elections went in each country. Our first edition covers Ireland, the UK, Spain, Portugal, France and the Benelux countries. Ireland - While Fianna Fail's vote collapsed and Fine Gael's vote rose, it didn't dramatically alter the...